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Author Archives: Claire Seppings
ABC prison stories with the personal Churchill Fellowship connection
The most significant memorable event of 2018 is thanks to the ABC and my former partner Craig, whom was the personal catalyst for my Churchill Fellowship. The ABC investigated and ran prison related stories in the lead up to the … Continue reading
Posted in Churchill Fellowship, Justice, Lived experience
Tagged Churchill Fellowship, Credible Messengers, criminality, desistance, drug and alcohol addictions, Ex-offenders, ex-prisoners, Lived experience, peer mentors, prison reform, recidivism, reformed offenders, Rehabilitation, rehabilitative role of reformed ex-prisoners, resettlement
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User Voice founder visits Australia to spread the peer led word
As the year 2018 draws to a close I am sharing two very memorable events. The first occurred in June 2018, when a Churchill Fellowship vision came to fruition. I met User Voice in London on the fifth day of my … Continue reading
Posted in Churchill Fellowship, Justice, Lived experience
Tagged 3CR Community Radio ‘Doin Time’, Churchill Fellowship, Claire Seppings, Credible Messengers, Ex-offenders, ex-prisoners, Lived experience, Peer Led Revolution, peer mentors, prison reform, reformed offenders, rehabilitative role of reformed ex-prisoners, Reintegration Puzzle Conference, User Voice
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Peer-led mentoring program to break cycle of crime & imprisonment
Source: Peer-led mentoring program to break cycle of crime & imprisonment
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3CR’s Doin Time broadcast 14th August, 2017, focusing on the lived experience of prison.
Wonderful to be in the 3CR studio again with Marisa for the Doin Time show. Marisa and I had a conversation about the lived experience of the criminal justice system with Keith Hinde and Nick Cernigoi from the Australian Red … Continue reading
Posted in Churchill Fellowship, Lived experience, Reintegration
Tagged 3CR Community Radio ‘Doin Time’, Australian Red Cross Prison Support Program, Churchill Fellowship, Claire Seppings, Credible Messengers, desistance, ex-prisoners, Lived experience, peer mentors, reformed offenders, rehabilitative role of reformed ex-prisoners, Reintegration, Reintegration Puzzle Conference, resettlement, service users
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An innovative trial of peer mentor support for ex-prisoners to break the cycle of recidivism.
Great news! My Churchill Fellowship research has now come to life in Australia! As we know, in overseas jurisdictions, ex-prisoners who have reformed contribute to reducing re-offending by mentoring newly released prisoners and advising on improvements to service systems that enable … Continue reading
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Tagged Churchill Fellowship, Claire Seppings, Credible Messengers, desistance, Ex-offenders, ex-prisoners, Lived experience, Mentoring, peer mentors, prisoners, recidivism, reformed offenders, rehabilitative role of reformed ex-prisoners, Reintegration, resettlement, service users
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3CR’s Doin Time broadcast 17th July 2017 focusing on the lived experience of prison.
Wonderful to be in the 3CR studio again with Marisa for the Doin Time show. This broadcast had the lived experience theme. Marisa and I spoke with Linda Fisk, founder of Seeds of Affinity and a Radio Seeds broadcaster. Linda spoke about her story, … Continue reading
Posted in Lived experience
Tagged 3CR Community Radio ‘Doin Time’, Churchill Fellowship, Claire Seppings, Credible Messengers, desistance, Ex-offenders, ex-prisoners, Lived experience, Mentoring, peer mentors, prison reform, Radio Seeds, rehabilitative role of reformed ex-prisoners, Reintegration, Reintegration Puzzle Conference, Seeds of Affinity, service users, Social Enterprise
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Reintegration Puzzle Conference 2017 (part 2)
Source: Reintegration Puzzle Conference 2017 (part 2)
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